🌿 How the Pillars Work Together

The Storyforge — Creates clarity, purpose and emotional meaning
The Journeyworks — Shapes how the game feels, plays and behaves
The Guardian’s Seal — Ensures stability, polish and reliability

Together, they create a supportive ecosystem that helps studios deliver thoughtful, engaging and heartfelt experiences.

Flexible, transparent and aligned with the way games are truly built.

Game development is iterative, creative, and ever-changing.
Rather than fixed packages that limit scope, I work through a simple foundation:

1) A once-off Initial Review, then

2) Hourly or per-asset billing depending on the service, and

3) Optional monthly retainers for ongoing collaboration.

This ensures you only pay for the support you need—when you need it.

Before any work begins, I take time to understand your project, your goals, and your challenges.

Discovery Lite — R350 ($20 USD) (1 HR) 

For teams early in development who have a high-level idea and want to understand what support they might need.

Includes:

• Brief review of concept

• 30-minute call

• General recommendations

• Rough estimate of service offerings

Full Discovery & Project Review — R1,200 ($70 USD) (4 HRS) 

For teams with more defined concepts, demos, GDDs or narrative materials.

Includes:

• Review of documents/builds

• Deep-dive discussion

• Summary of findings

• Tailored hour estimate and milestone outline

This step ensures clarity for both sides—reducing risk, cost, and confusion later.

Gameplay Clarity & Design Support
Narrative & Storytelling Guidance
R450 / hour
($27 USD)

For gameplay flow and moment-to-moment clarity, level design readability and pacing, teaching moments, onboarding and tutorials, puzzle logic and player guidance, combat readability and rhythm, system behavior and player feedback loops, design documentation, story structure & plot cohesion, narrative design, theme, tone and emotional pacing, character development, dialogue refinement & character voice, worldbuilding, lore development and narrative integration.

I help you shape, refine and expand the core creative vision of your game.

Unreal Engine Blueprint Prototyping
R550 / hour
($33 USD)

For interaction & trigger prototypes, gameplay mechanics, simple AI behavior, puzzle logic and obstacles, greybox-level blockouts, environment design, gameplay interaction sequences, UI/UX logic setup.

3D Modelling (Custom & Modular Assets)

Tiered per-asset pricing

• Small props: R100–R150 ($6 - $9 USD)

• Medium assets: R250–R400 ($15 - $24 USD)

• Complex buildings including interior: R450–R700 ($27 - $42 USD)

Based on your needs, we can discuss creating asset packs. As an example, you need a fairytale-fantasy town with 10 buildings. Instead of charging you per building, I will create a few unique buildings, then use those base models to design different variations, saving on time and cost. 

All models include clean topology, PBR textures (if needed), and optional modular variations.

Functional QA & Reliability Testing
Player Experience & UX Evaluation
R350 / hour
($20 USD)

For functional & exploratory testing, bug reports, regression testing, stability & behavior checks, edge-case & boundary exploration, acceptance criteria validation, player experience consistency testing, UI clarity & information hierarchy, player flow & navigation, cognitive load & accessibility, difficulty balance & fairness, frustration points & usability issues, emotional pacing & engagement.

If you prefer long-term support—weekly input, monthly iterations, or consistent testing—we can set up a dedicated monthly retainer at a discounted rate. This could be used for any of my service offerings. 

✨ Ward — 20 hours/month: R8,000  ($470 USD)
👁️ Sentinel — 40 hours/month: R15,000  ($880  USD)
🛡️ Guardian — 60 hours/month: R21,000 ($1240 USD) (priority availability)